Rep. Ro Khanna
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And that's the only way we're going to start to bind the divides in this country.
Now, Thomas Massey sends a Christmas card every year where he's got his entire family with machine guns in front of his Christmas tree.
Do I agree with him on gun policy?
I've voted for an assault weapons ban.
I voted for universal background checks.
I voted to limit magazine capacity.
But if I said, OK, I'm not going to work with Thomas, we would never get the Epstein files released.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, she had not shown the courage she did.
She gave up her seat in Congress over this.
We would not have gotten the files released.
So I believe that the key is to be true to your values.
Don't throw trans kids under the bus just because we lost an election.
Don't go vote for the Lake and Raleigh Act that basically gave ICE the ability to do these raids just because you want to be tough on the border.
But while being true to your values, listen and have dialogue with others where there can be common ground on a principled basis.
Well, I think when I said that we should work with Doge in the beginning, and I wrote an MSNBC op-ed on it, I said that the place to look is the Department of Defense.
I voted against the Department of Defense every single time.
It's almost a trillion-dollar budget.
And yet when Elon got there, and he had done SpaceX, which disrupted Boeing and Lockheed.
And I said to Elon, look, go after defense.